SYLLABUS
MUSIC 408 E
(timings are tentative)
Spring 2013
January 14 - 23
Course organization.
Recapitulation: Tonality, tone-row, traditional forms.
- The tonal system as hierachy.
- Row, matrix, combinatoriality.
assignment due: 1/18
- New sounds, old forms:
- Schwiters - "Ursonate"
- Tzara - "L'admiral..."
- Musique concrete
- Pierre Schaeffer - "Etude aux chemins de fer"
assignment due: 1/25
- New sounds, new forms: Proportions, Cage's Square root method
January 25 - February 13
Integral Serialism
- Strict organization at all parameters. Forerunners: Webern;
Messian: modes and "Mode de valeurs"
- "Schoenberg Is Dead"
- Boulez: Structure Ia Variations
- Domain technique, Koblyakov
- Boulez: "Le marteau sans maitre" Neoclassic suite ?
assignment due: 2/6
- Electronic Music equipment. Group technique; additive synthesis
- "...how time passes..."
February 15 - March 11
Indeterminacy
- Chance Music
- Zen and Dada
- John Cage: material, structure, method, form.
listening quizz I 2/18
- Chance procedures
- Music of Changes
- Williams Mix
- Number Pieces
ssignment due: 2/22
- Aleatory Music
- Umberto Eco - "Opera aperta"
- Earl Brown - Folio and Four Systems
- Zyklus
- Formants; Boulez on sonata
- Momente form
- Composition Classes
- Plus-minus (borrowings)
ssignment due: 3/11
- Stochastic Music
March 13 - March 15
- Synthesizers and Computer Sound Synthesis
- Voltage-controlled equipment; Buchla, Moog, Beauchamp
- Davidovsky - Synchronisms
- W. Carlos - Switch on Bach
- A little acoustics: how do we hear ? Sampling, ADC/DAC.
- Max Mathews - Bicycle for Two
March 25 - April 10
- Concept Music, Graphic Scores, Minimalism, Microtonality
- Textkomposition
- Stockhausen - Aus den sieben Tagen
- LaMonte Young - 1960 pieces
- Minimalism/Phase Music; process music
- Reich - Four Organs
- Riley - In C
- Stockhausen - Stimmung
listening quizz II 3/27
- Once Group
- Danger Music; Fur Music; Bio Music
- Graphic scores
- Happenings
ssignment due: 4/5
- Microtonality; Proportions
- Partch - Bewitched
- Ben Johnston - String Quartet (Amazing Grace)
April 12 - May 1
- Science, Mathematics, Music, Technology
Final exam (comprehensive): 8:00-11:00 am, Friday, May 10
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